Sex offender accused of being too close to Fulton park with playground
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A registered sex offender in Fulton was charged with a felony on Wednesday after he allegedly was seen at being at a public park with a playground and splash pad.
Schylur Mahurin, 31, was charged with being a sex offender who was loitering within 500 feet of a park with a playground. He is being held at the Callaway County Jail on a $20,000 bond.
The probable cause statement says he was convicted of second-degree statutory rape in 2015 in Linn County.
The statement says the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office received multiple complaints about Mahurin being at a park over the weekend.
A probation officer who put Mahurin on GPS monitoring confirmed that he was at Memorial Park on Saturday between 3-7 p.m. Mahurin allegedly told law enforcement that he was walking at the park with a coworker, the statement says. A deputy told him he’s not allowed to be at a park and he allegedly replied that he knew that information, court documents say.
Mahurin pleaded guilty on June 26, 2023, to failure to register as a sex offender and was sentenced to five years of probation, along with a three-year suspended sentence.